Development Artifact Cleanup: ✅ BROTHER_NODE REORGANIZATION: Moved development test node to appropriate location - dev/test-nodes/brother_node/: Moved from root directory for better organization - Contains development configuration, test logs, and test chain data - No impact on production systems - purely development/testing artifact ✅ DEVELOPMENT ARTIFACTS IDENTIFIED: - Chain ID: aitbc-brother-chain (test/development chain) - Ports: 8010 (P2P) and 8011 (RPC) - different from production - Environment: .env file with test configuration - Logs: rpc.log and node.log from development testing session (March 15, 2026) ✅ ROOT DIRECTORY CLEANUP: Removed development clutter from production directory - brother_node/ moved to dev/test-nodes/brother_node/ - Root directory now contains only production-ready components - Development artifacts properly organized in dev/ subdirectory DIRECTORY STRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT: 📁 dev/test-nodes/: Development and testing node configurations 🏗️ Root Directory: Clean production structure with only essential components 🧪 Development Isolation: Test environments separated from production BENEFITS: ✅ Clean Production Directory: No development artifacts in root ✅ Better Organization: Development nodes grouped in dev/ subdirectory ✅ Clear Separation: Production vs development environments clearly distinguished ✅ Maintainability: Easier to identify and manage development components RESULT: Successfully moved brother_node development artifact to dev/test-nodes/ subdirectory, cleaning up the root directory while preserving development testing environment for future use.
Templates
This directory contains hardhat --init templates. A template serves as a blueprint for initializing a new project.
Each template is a directory with a package.json file and other template files.
The package.json file contains the template's metadata. The following fields are used during project initialization:
description: A short description of the template which is displayed to the user during template selection.devDependencies: The list of dependencies that should be installed in the project.peerDependencies: The list of dependencies that should also be installed in the project as dev dependencies if the used package manager does not install peer dependencies by default.
Note that the workspace: prefix is stripped from the version of the template dependencies during project initialization.
The other template files are copied to the project during project initialization.
.gitignore files
Due to a limitation in npm, .gitignore files are always ignored during project packing/publishing (see https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/3763).
To work around this, we use the following convention:
- if a template file is named
gitignore, it is copied to the project workspace as.gitignore; - if a template file is named
.gitignore, it is ignored during the project initialization (this should only affect local development, or future versions ofnpmif the aforementioned issue is resolved).